Data Mining Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Data Mining
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Data Mining skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% - 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.11% - 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £255
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £494 - £268
90th Percentile £498 - -
South East median daily rate £463 £385 £619
% change year-on-year +20.13% -37.78% +35.99%

All Database & BI Skills
Thames Valley

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 360 225 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.95% 14.53% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 152 224
10th Percentile £310 £321 £309
25th Percentile £410 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £650
90th Percentile £636 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 18
10th Percentile £24.99 £23.24 £20.04
25th Percentile £26.26 £24.40 £23.06
Median hourly rate £52.34 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -29.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81.74 £61.98 £66.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £65.62 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £36.86 £42.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year -13.28% -27.85% +7.10%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Mining relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Data Mining job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Data Mining
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Mining.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Mining

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Mining.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Data Mining

Data Mining
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 2 £500 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 2 £475 - 2
Data Mining
South East

Data Mining
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Understanding
2 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) R
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Trend Micro
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware